Promote economical and efficient use of land while providing
a comfortable blend of housing types, limited commercial, amenities
and community facilities of high quality oriented to specific site
and preservation of natural scenic qualities of open areas.
A. Application. A PRD may be permitted as a conditional use in R-2,
R-3, and R-4 zones, subject to the standards, restrictions, qualifications,
criteria, requirements, conditions, regulations and procedures enumerated
in this Part, as set forth herein. Certain provisions of this Chapter
and the respective Subdivision Ordinance shall not be applied to PRD
proposals accepted for review, except when specifically indicated
by the provisions contained herein.
B. Each PRD shall have a unitary site plan, a mixture of housing types
and land uses, usable common open space, site-related circulation
systems and preservation of significant natural features.
In the event that a development plan, or a section thereof,
is given final approval and thereafter, the landowner shall abandon
such plan, or the section thereof that has been finally approved and
shall so notify the Board of Supervisors in writing; or, in the event
the landowner shall fail to commence and carry out the PRD within
such reasonable period of time as established by the Township's Subdivision
and Land Development Ordinance after final approval has been granted,
no development, or further development, shall take place on the property
included in the development plan until after the said property is
reclassified by enactment of an amendment to this Chapter of West
Deer Township, as amended.